Upgraded from GTX260 to an XFX 6950.. performs worse?

rfasSep 11, 2011, 5:42 AM

It seems like I'm getting worse FPS in almost every video game I've tested it on so far. I understand Borderlands is designed heavily for NVIDIA cards so I'll excuse that, but, on every other game (GTA IV most notably) I've played I'm getting no to less performance. As far as I know, I've installed the correct and most recent drivers. It also seems like even outside of games, such as on the desktop or even typing seems a little more sluggish.. That could be me though. It'd be really appreciated if someone could tell me what was going on. I have a feeling I've done something incredibly stupid, or overlooked something, so go easy on me :P

check CCC settings, make sure any anti-aliasing is off, many people report performance issues with morphological AA box ticked. When upgrading graphics cards you really should use Driversweeper in safe mode to remove all traces of the old cards drivers before you install the new drivers. Do that, remove all display drivers and only install the latest ones.

check CCC settings, make sure any anti-aliasing is off, many people report performance issues with morphological AA box ticked. When upgrading graphics cards you really should use Driversweeper in safe mode to remove all traces of the old cards drivers before you install the new drivers. Do that, remove all display drivers and only install the latest ones.

1. Most of ur........input is useless and it's hard to find actual useful information from it.2. we only need basics, motherboard,CPU, power supply, OS3. Have u clean the nvidia drivers completely?

Noted, I cut it down quite a bit.

Probably not, they're gone from the add/remove programs but that's about it.

@iam2thecrowe:Morphological AA was off. I can't turn all of them off, most of them are on a slider from performance to quality.. I'll assume that I should have them toward performance and use application settings. I'll go ahead and do driver sweeper now.

why is your page file so low ? performance isn't always judged by FPS. but I bet you get higher minimum FPS. A "newer" processor will pick that up though.( 1156, etc.) I have a similar processor for gaming and have a 2gig 6950 and have no problems with anything. did you go to windows update lately ? what power supply do you have ? I'd go into the device manager, find the video card and uninstall it from the panel, reboot and let windows find the new hardware. Then I would worry about installing the driver suite from AMD.

why is your page file so low ? performance isn't always judged by FPS. but I bet you get higher minimum FPS. A "newer" processor will pick that up though.( 1156, etc.) I have a similar processor for gaming and have a 2gig 6950 and have no problems with anything. did you go to windows update lately ? what power supply do you have ? I'd go into the device manager, find the video card and uninstall it from the panel, reboot and let windows find the new hardware. Then I would worry about installing the driver suite from AMD.

I have no idea actually.. I'll have to look at that.

I have a few updates pending, I'll go ahead and update that now. I'll do the other things you recommended too. Thanks a TON guys If anyone else has any suggestions, I'm open!